AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tragicom Studios today announced it is currently producing a feature
film, MindBlinders, which promises to cause a stir within the
high technology and medical communities. Set in a world of human
genetics engineering, forced global inoculations and the rise of a
techno-fascist leader, MindBlinders takes humankind to the brink
of extinction and guarantees to cause debate.

While the cognitive disorder known as “mind-blindness” is a central
story element, it is also perhaps the defining behaviour of most
individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

Autism is now at epidemic proportions and currently affects one in 68
children according to Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The cause and
explanation for the incredible spike in diagnosed cases over the past
decade remains a hotly debated mystery. What is known is the strong
genetic component to autism. Mind-blindness is a cognitive disorder that
renders a person unable to read social cues or generally empathize with
other individuals making common interaction very awkward. However that
same socially isolated person may have amazing aptitude in areas of
special interest like high tech engineering where their ability to focus
on the minutia of detail allows them to thrive and pass on their
genetics.

The movie explores a few previously unasked questions:

Is the pervasiveness of the high technology culture responsible then for
shifting a very large gene pool in the direction of the mind-blind?
Could that aggregated gene pool be a factor helping to explain the
current autism epidemic? Has the rise in diagnosed cases of autism
followed the growth trajectory of the high tech industry? Has the high
tech industry begun to shape its own workforce through indirect eugenics
(human engineering)? Has life begun to imitate technology? MindBlinders
is set in world where the answer to these questions is an
unequivocal yes!

“Given the unexplained autism epidemic and all the conjecture, maybe we
should ask if a tipping point has been reached where mind-blindness is
somehow being cultivated,” commented Charles Boswell, CEO and founder of
Tragicom Studios. “The idea of mankind adapting to technology or its
culture has always troubled me, especially if the freedom of the human
mind is being slowly bridled with some narrow mental framework. I find
it ironic and disturbing the high technology industry has had more than
a few luminaries in the eugenics camp starting with the co-inventor of
the transistor, William Shockley.”

Boswell concludes: “High Tech has been my Galapagos!”

About Tragicom Studios

Founded in January 2013 by Charlie Boswell, American film director and
former Director of Digital Media and Entertainment for Advanced Micro
Devices, Inc. (AMD), Austin headquartered Tragicom Studios specializes
in pre and postproduction filmmaking services including story
development, while also offering services such as music composition and
production and technology consulting. Tragicom’s clients include
internationally renowned entertainment personalities, such as Robert
Rodriguez of Troublemaker Studios/El Rey Network, Trey Parker and Matt
Stone of South Park Studios, and a number of Fortune 500 companies.